Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-06-30
THE NEWS.
. The Grant monument fund has reach.
ed $4,000.

COrnell COllege, OF mount vernon, Ia,
conferred the degree of L. l.. D. upon
Senator VIM. B. Allison.
Gas was struck at Fosters Station,
Ind. The output is estimated at four
million cubic feet per day.
The Executive Committee of the Ohio
Republican League is called to meet in
Columbus Wednesday, June 30.
A steam barge, the P. H. Coalter. was
struck by gale on Lake Erie last week,
and went down with eight persons on
board.
Four daughters and son of Adam
Weis, of Portsmouth, O., we're poisoned
by eating of diseased ham, and are
quite ill.
There are negotiations in progress
looking to the removal of the U. S. Roll
ing Stock Company, from Urbana, o., to
Decatur, Ala.
a gas explosion In a mine at Nanti.
coke. Pa, resulted In the death of four
miners and the possible death of three
others, injured.
Three prisoners convicted of felonies
and awaiting sentence in the Jail at
Ironton, O., escaped by cutting their way
through the floor.
Hon. John R. Buchtel has given an
additional $4,000 to Buchtel College.
Akron, O., making his total contribution
to the college S4O5,sOO.
Colorow, a noted renegade, and snb>
,1E - ,h0 hnn
dating for years, has been captured by
troops in Western Colorado.
The first cremation of human oody
in the new Cincinnati Crematary oceurt
red Wednesday, the subject being the
infant daughter of Mrs. Kramer.
Craig Tolliver, the Rowan county (Ky)
outlaw, his two cousins. Bud and Jay
Tolliver. and Hiram Cooper, we're killed
while resisting rrrest by Sheriff's posse.
The action of Judge Woods. in calling
the IDdiadapOlis election conspirators to
plead to indictments found against them
has caused CONSERVATION among the
gang.
The Missouri legislature, by a vote of
SO to 40, rejected the proposal to i'm
peach the State Auditor, who was lately
charged with misappropriation of state
funds.
Richmond, Ind, has passed an ordi
nance prohibiting music on the streets
without a permit from the Mayor. the
object being to suppress the Salvation
Army.
The internal revenue receipts for May
1887, compared with those for May 1886.
shows an increase of S1.200.000 from
spirits and liquors, and of 1924, 900 from
tobacco.
The Republicans of SciOta county, o..
in convention, unanimously condemned
the rebel flag order of Cleveland, and
indorsed the action of Governor Fora
ker in the matter.
Messrs Harper Hopkins and Baldwin,
of the Fidelity National Bank, of Gin
cinnati, have been arrested on another
charge, that of conspiracy in making a
false bank statement.
The Jumbo" gas we'll at Fairmount,
Ind, has been purchased by Leonand 81.
Best, for Buffalo syndicate, who pros
pose piping gas to towns in northern
Indiana outside the gas belt.
The farm of the late Henry Ward
Beecher Las been purchased by General
Thomas. the President of the East Ten
Dessee railroad. Mr. Thomas will main
tain it as country residence.
E. L. Harper and Benz. Hopkins, two
of the three Fidelity Bank officials unr
der arrest, were surrendered by their
boDdsmen, and in default of renewed
bail are confined in the county Jail.
Charles Pelton, a cranky inmate of
the county ihfrmary Bangs, o., att
tempted to kill the uperintendent, first
by cutting at him with knife, and af
terward by firing at him with a revolver.
He escaped.
At Nebraska City, Neb., tramp NAM
ed John Gallagher has brought suit
against the Chicago. Burlington and
Quincy railroad for $4,000 for failing to
sustain charges brought against him of
attempted train wIecking.
A band of Regulators has been Or
ganized IN the upper portion of Rowan
and adjoining counties, Kentucky, with
the announced object Of putting an end
to the brutal Toliver regime, if the town
of Morehead has to be wiped out of ex>
istence to accomplish it.
Matthew Gurne,of Haverstraw, n. Y,
who was bitten by dog with which he
was playing a month ago, was seized
with symptoms of hydrophObia OF Mon
day, died Thursday morning, after Il
night of great agony. He was sixty
years old unmarried and wealthy.
In the trial at Utica, N. Y, of Roark,
the alleged express robber, pieces of
mutilated currency found on his person
were put in evidence. 1t was also
shown that the tracks In the snow
found near the spot of the robbery. cor
responded with the size of ROark's foot.
Anton C. j. Rudolph. the city book
keeper of the Continental National
bank, Chicago who, it is alleged, COM
mitted forgeries for $4,000, and swim
died the bank out of $4,000 in cash,
which he sunk In the wheat deal, waiv>
ed examination and was held to the
grand jury.
Two fast express trains on the Phila'
delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore, col
lided near Havre de Grace, one day last
week, and were completely wrecked.
One passenger. Alexander Gsntrom. of
Washington, was killed and a great
number of others more or less injured.
The cause Is said to be defective air
brakes.
A woman, known as Anna Butter
field, who has lately been working in 4
bakery at Riverside. Cal. has been iden-
titled as one of the persons who appsr
emily had some knowledge or connection
with the alleged abduction of Mrs AL
bert Brooks, of Juniats. Mich, who re-
Gently came into possession of a large
fortuue at Denver. Col, and then mys>
teriously disappeared. 1t Is thought
she may be Mrs Brooks.